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Populus tremuloides - Pinus contorta / Carex geyeri - Calamagrostis rubescens Forest | Mueggler, W. F. 1988. Aspen comm...
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Name: Populus tremuloides - Pinus contorta / Carex geyeri - Calamagrostis rubescens Forest
Reference: Mueggler, W. F. 1988. Aspen comm...
Description: This forested association is known only from eastern Idaho, western Wyoming and northern Utah, the Utah -Wyoming Rocky Mountain Ecoregion. This mixed broadleaf deciduous-needleleaf evergreen forest occurs in the mountains between 1900 and 2900 m (6200-9400 feet) elevation, on gentle slopes of all aspects, on soils from sandstone or quartzite rock. It has little structural diversity and is fairly simple compositionally. The tree layer is dominated by both <i>Populus tremuloides</i> and <i>Pinus contorta</i>, with the occasional presence of other conifers, such as <i>Abies lasiocarpa</i> or <i>Pseudotsuga menziesii</i>. A few scattered shrub species may be present, but these do not form a distinct shrub layer. Shrub species may include <i>Juniperus communis, Mahonia repens</i>, or <i>Shepherdia canadensis</i>. The herbaceous layer consists of either <i>Carex geyeri</i> or <i>Calamagrostis rubescens</i>, sometimes with appreciable amounts of forbs such as <i>Lupinus argenteus, Osmorhiza berteroi (= Osmorhiza chilensis), Geranium viscosissimum, Chamerion angustifolium, Heracleum maximum</i>, or <i>Thalictrum fendleri</i>. 
Accession Code: VB.CC.37174.CEGL000536
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
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Perspective from: 17-Nov-2014 to: 01-May-2019
     
  • status: accepted
  • This Community's Level: association
  • This Community's Children: [none]
Names:   Translated: Quaking Aspen - Lodgepole Pine / Geyer's Sedge - Pinegrass Forest
  Scientific: Populus tremuloides - Pinus contorta / Carex geyeri - Calamagrostis rubescens Forest
  Code: CEGL000536
  UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.686484 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo